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Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had accomplice, data shows, as investigators say FBI suppressing info
NY Post ^ | Feb. 27, 2025, 3:46 p.m. ET | Dana Kennedy

Posted on 02/27/2025 1:41:24 PM PST by BenLurkin

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — It’s been almost nine months since a seemingly mild-mannered 20-year-old attempted to alter the course of history by trying to assassinate then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler.

Sources told The Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did. It’s left local law enforcement as well as Crooks’ former friends, classmates and teachers and even Elon Musk frustrated.

Those who may know, Crooks’ parents Matthew and Mary, have refused all interviews so far and remain in their small, three-bedroom home here, sealed off from the world like hermits. Neighbors say they only leave the house at 3am to buy groceries.

But a veteran private investigator from Erie, Penn., who was hired shortly after the fateful July 13 event at Butler Farm show grounds to look into Crooks by a private client, told The Post he believes a “criminal network” was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: assassinationplots; banglist; crooks; fbi; fbisedition; maxwellyearick; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks
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To: BenLurkin

I hope Kash is up to his job.


21 posted on 02/27/2025 2:16:08 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Has anyone seen Maxwell Yearick lately?


22 posted on 02/27/2025 2:16:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: odawg

At this point I have no idea whose body was cremated.

It could have been a homeless person they got off the street.

When the investigation is being conducted by pathological liars there is no chain of custody.


23 posted on 02/27/2025 2:19:14 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: odawg

I remember seeing the father on TV with his other son coming back from the store, the father looked pretty damn happy and I was thinking to myself “Why is he so happy, regardless of what his son did that’s still his son and he’s dead, shouldn’t he be grieving” Crooks is alive he was NEVER the shooter..heck what evidence do we have that anyone was ever cremated


24 posted on 02/27/2025 2:23:37 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda
The real shooter was hired by Biden and his goons to off Trump and when it failed, Biden had to drop out of the race.

I do not believe Biden hired anybody. He was a senile puppet used for decoration during his entire administration. He made no major decisions of any kind, though he blurted out a few of them.

But I expect that someone in his administration arranged the assassination attempt. There must have also been persons in the Secret Service who arranged the preposterously inadequate security coverage. Also, a third group was needed to recruit the shooter and get him into position.

Yes, I believe Thomas Crooke was the real shooter. Maxwell Yearick (the ANTIFA guy who has since disappeared) was probably an accomplice. Both are certainly dead by now.

And yes, the failure of that project was probably the real reason that Biden was suddenly forced out of the reelection campaign. Other factions, sensing weakness, made their move to grab the brass ring with Kamala Harris.

The second assassination attempt by Ryan Routh has "low-level CIA asset with deniability" written all over it. Different factions of the "Deep State". Same poor level of competence.

25 posted on 02/27/2025 2:36:01 PM PST by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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the patsy had an accomplice? just one?


26 posted on 02/27/2025 2:37:09 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Williams

“Without question, and the second assassin was an even more professional hit job.”

They were so pissed the first one missed, that somebody got their ass chewed out for not delivering the rifle with a scope.

So, they fixed that problem with #2.


27 posted on 02/27/2025 2:37:29 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (C)
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To: BenLurkin

There was no accomplice.

Crooks was a patsy.


28 posted on 02/27/2025 2:40:44 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: ConservativeMind

There are two very important things we know:
despite knowing there was a guy with a rifle on the roof with a clear view.
1. They let Trump take the stage.
2. They let the man take the shot.


29 posted on 02/27/2025 2:42:19 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: BenLurkin

Well yeah, the FBI WAS the accomplist


30 posted on 02/27/2025 2:42:52 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: BenLurkin

The title is wrong. They mean “handler” not accomplice.


31 posted on 02/27/2025 2:46:15 PM PST by CTyank
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thomas Crooks had a sister, not a brother. Your recollection is inaccurate in that respect at the least.

My recollection of Crooks senior is that he looked angry, but not drained and flat of aspect as bereaved parents usually do.


32 posted on 02/27/2025 2:59:10 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it.)
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To: BenLurkin

A shoplifter caught stealing got knocked out by a coke bottle thrown by a store employee while trying to make his getaway
https://twitter.com/i/status/1894794560813048307


33 posted on 02/27/2025 2:59:59 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BenLurkin

Too bad Crooks wasn’t the shooter


34 posted on 02/27/2025 3:01:25 PM PST by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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To: BenLurkin

Maxwell Yearick


35 posted on 02/27/2025 3:08:24 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: BenLurkin

The lady who gave him one free shot should be investigated as an accomplice.


36 posted on 02/27/2025 3:09:56 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: madison10

BINGO!, until proven otherwise.


37 posted on 02/27/2025 3:12:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

That would explain the six cell phones and his multiple trips to Washington


38 posted on 02/27/2025 3:34:07 PM PST by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I think the FBI should be put on lockdown and I think military police should begin a rigorous investigation of the crimes of the FBI.

Trump does not have an armed law enforcement team loyal enough to him to pull this off. Hegseth might be able to help but that is treading shaky Constitutional ground.

39 posted on 02/27/2025 3:44:43 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t they geo track his phone near the FBI building?


40 posted on 02/27/2025 3:53:07 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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